EP1382416B1 - Schutzabdeckvorrichtung für Maschinen oder Anlagen - Google Patents

Schutzabdeckvorrichtung für Maschinen oder Anlagen Download PDF

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EP1382416B1
EP1382416B1 EP03425456A EP03425456A EP1382416B1 EP 1382416 B1 EP1382416 B1 EP 1382416B1 EP 03425456 A EP03425456 A EP 03425456A EP 03425456 A EP03425456 A EP 03425456A EP 1382416 B1 EP1382416 B1 EP 1382416B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23Q—DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
    • B23Q11/00—Accessories fitted to machine tools for keeping tools or parts of the machine in good working condition or for cooling work; Safety devices specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools
    • B23Q11/08—Protective coverings for parts of machine tools; Splash guards
    • B23Q11/0825—Relatively slidable coverings, e.g. telescopic
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T409/00—Gear cutting, milling, or planing
    • Y10T409/30—Milling
    • Y10T409/30392—Milling with means to protect operative or machine [e.g., guard, safety device, etc.]

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  • the present invention relates to a protective covering device for machinery and equipment.
  • the invention concerns a protective covering device for the working parts of automatic machines, machine tools or robotised systems, and can be advantageously applied to several industrial sectors.
  • Italian patent application No.BO99U000053 in the name of the same Applicant as the present discloses a protective covering device for the working tool of a machine tool.
  • the working tool moves in a straight line in both directions and the protective covering device is designed to follow its movements in such a way as to cover and protect the part of the machine from which the working tool itself projects.
  • the device comprises a plurality of relatively thin cover panels, which overlap each other and the first of which is fixed to the machine at the zone to be protected, while the other panels can slide relative to one another and relative to the first panel, in the same direction as that in which the working tool moves.
  • the sliding of the mobile panels is guided by two guide profiles of the first panel which have a C-shaped cross section and which extend lengthways in the direction of movement of the tool.
  • Each cover panel has a rectangular opening through which the mobile tool passes. More specifically, the opening in the first panel forms an area to be covered by the remaining mobile panels, whilst the openings in the mobile panels decrease in size starting from the one that faces the first panel.
  • the cover panel in the outermost position that is to say, the one opposite the fixed first panel in the set of mobile panels, is attached to and drawn by the mobile tool along the above mentioned straight path, whilst each of the other mobile panels is drawn along by a contact tab on the mobile panel adjacent to it on the outside.
  • the mobile panels in the different working positions cover corresponding, rectangular portions of the area defined by the opening in the first panel.
  • Each panel comprises a first section and a second section, lying longitudinally opposite each other in the same plane and connected by two longitudinal portions parallel to the tool feed path, in such a way as to form the boundary of the respective opening.
  • the panels making up the covering device slide over each other, and the two sets of first panel sections and second panel sections form two complementary portions, respectively first and second portions, of a covering wall. More specifically, the first and second sections are positioned on opposite sides of the tool along the tool feed path and overlap each other in tile-like fashion in opposite directions in such a way as to form two sets of panel sections that are symmetrical about the tool.
  • a protective covering device of the type under consideration is disclosed in JP 62044347 , and comprises a machine having a tool and a set of sliding covering plates coupled to each other and having a first covering plate attached to the machine and a plurality of mobile covering plates that move relative to each other and relative to the first cover element along the defined path due to the movement of the tool.
  • Each of the covering plates has a central opening through which the tool is placed, and also has two transversal portions positioned on opposite sides of the tool and joined by two longitudinal portions of the respective sliding plate.
  • each transversal portion of each sliding covering element comprises a section that overlaps the next section of another sliding covering element, so that the succession of sliding covering elements avoid chippings, swarf, dust and other process waste to penetrate into the machine from the outside.
  • the present invention has for an object to provide a protective covering device that overcomes the drawback mentioned above with reference to prior art.
  • the present invention provides a protective covering device for machinery and equipment according to one or more of the appended claims.
  • the numeral 1 denotes a protective covering device for a machine tool, of which only a part of a front wall 2 is illustrated and which comprises a working element 3 that moves in both directions along a substantially vertical path D and that is illustrated schematically by the dashed line in Figures 1 and 3 .
  • the working element 3 is normally a tool forming part of a machine tool or similar machine and the protective covering device 1 is attached to the tool 3 in such a way as to follow the latter's backward and forward motion along the path D, covering and protecting a corresponding area 4 of the machine tool.
  • the tool 3 has a rear portion 5 and projects from the protective covering device 1.
  • the device 1 comprises a set of cover elements which are slidably linked to each other and which consist of a first cover element 6 attached (in a way that is not illustrated) to the wall portion 2 of the machine at the area 4 to be protected, and a plurality of mobile cover elements 7, 8 and 9 that move relative to each other and relative to the fixed first cover element 6 along the path D.
  • the cover elements 6, 7, 8, 9 are made preferably of metal - for example steel - and consist of respective flat panels which are relatively thin, overlap each other and are substantially rectangular in shape. More specifically, the element 9 is positioned in contact with the element 8 which is positioned in contact with the element 7. The latter is positioned in contact with the element 6 which is attached to the front wall 2 of the machine.
  • the elements 6, 7, 8 and 9 are all substantially the same in width, transversal to the path D, whilst lengthways, in a direction parallel to the path D, they gradually decrease in size starting from the fixed first element 6 down to the last mobile cover element 9.
  • Each cover element 6, 7, 8 and 9 has a substantially rectangular, central opening labelled, respectively, 6a, 7a, 8a and 9a, each defined by two longitudinal portions 10 and two transversal portions 11 and 12 which, with reference to the accompanying drawings, are the upper transversal portions 11 and the lower transversal portions 12 of the cover elements 6, 7, 8 and 9.
  • the upper transversal portions 11 and the lower transversal portions 12 form, respectively, a first portion 13 and a second portion 14 of a covering wall 15.
  • the element 6 comprises a device 16 for guiding and retaining the mobile elements 7, 8 and 9.
  • the device 16 comprises two tracks 17 each extending in a direction parallel to the path D along an outside edge of the longitudinal portions 10 of the panel constituting the first element 6 itself. More specifically, each track 17 is formed by the respective outside longitudinal edge which transversely contains the mobile cover elements 7, 8 and 9, these being held together in a pack by a pair of strips 18 mounted on the longitudinal edges and protruding from the latter towards the inside of the covering wall 15.
  • the openings 6a, 7a, 8a and 9a are all substantially the same in width, at right angles to the path D, whilst lengthways, in a direction parallel to the path D, they gradually decrease in size starting from the one in the fixed first element 6 down to the one in the last mobile cover element 9.
  • the first portion 13 and the second portion 14 of the covering wall 15 complement each other and the wall 15 itself has an opening that coincides with the opening 9a in the element 9, through which the tool 3 protrudes.
  • the upper transversal portions 11 and the lower transversal portions 12 are in contact with each other and are drawn by the tool 3 as the latter moves along the path D. More specifically, the upper transversal portions 11 and the lower transversal portions 12 overlap each other starting from the cover element 6 and ending at the cover element 9, and proceeding outwards from the inside of the front wall 2 of the machine tool, the extent to which each element overlaps the next varying according to the position of the tool 3.
  • the path D is substantially vertical and in both the first portion 13 and the second portion 14 of the covering wall 15, the transversal portions 11 and 12 of each cover element 6, 7, 8 and 9 comprise a first section and a second section, respectively.
  • the second sections forming the second portion 14 of the covering wall 15 coincide with the transversal portions 12 of the cover elements and each lies in the same plane as the respective longitudinal portions 10 of each of the cover elements 6, 7 8 and 9.
  • the second sections are labelled 12, like the transversal portions 12 they coincide with.
  • the first sections of the first portion 13 (the upper one) of the covering wall 15, on the other hand, are labelled 19 and consist of second portions 20, which are transversal to the path D and parallel to the transversal portions 11 to which they are associated, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 , through connecting walls 21 which are also transversal to the path D and perpendicular to the portions 20 and 11. It should be noticed that the first sections 19 coincide with the second transversal portions 20.
  • the covering wall 15 is defined by a succession of sections 20, 12, each overlapping the next section 20, 12 in tile-like fashion in the same direction, labelled A, along the path D, in such a way that all the sections 20 and 12 of the covering wall 15 face the same direction like the tiles of a roof.
  • each section 20, 12 of the two portions 13 and 14 is from the top down so as to prevent any coolant, washing liquid or lubricant sprayed onto the tool 3 from an area above the wall 2 from getting into the protected area 4.
  • the box-like elements 22 of the cover elements 6, 7, 8 and 9 are therefore telescopically coupled with each other.
  • each of the cover elements 6, 7, 8, 9 comprises first and second flanges 23, 24 located at the transversal edges opposite the corresponding openings 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a and extend at right angles from the respective panels on the same side as the area 4 to be protected.
  • each mobile cover element 7, 8, 9 constitute flanges for engaging with and stopping the adjacent covering element in such a way as to draw the cover elements along the path D and to stop them at an end of stroke position.
  • shock absorbing devices 25 consisting of energy dissipators are fitted between the flanges themselves, each being mounted in a fixed position on the respective flange.
  • Each of the devices 25, as described in European patent application EP n.02425257.9 dated 22.04.2002, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, comprises a pair of energy dissipating elements 26 designed to reduce the speed of the cover elements as they close in on each other, without returning energy between the elements themselves.
  • the invention can be modified and adapted in several ways without thereby departing from the scope of the inventive concept. Moreover, all the details of the invention may be substituted by technically equivalent elements.
  • the energy dissipating devices 26 can be substituted by shock absorbing pads made of flexible, resilient material.

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  1. Schutzabdeckvorrichtung für Maschinen und Anlagen, die mit einem beweglichen Werkzeug (3) ausgerüstet sind, das sich zumindest entlang eines vorgegebenen Weges (D) bewegt; wobei die Vorrichtung (1) an dem Werkzeug (3) befestigt ist und einen Satz Abdeckelemente (6, 7, 8, 9) beinhaltet, die gleitbar miteinander verbunden sind und aus einem ersten Abdeckelement (6), das an der Maschine oder dem Anlagenteil an einem zu schützenden Bereich (4) angebracht ist, sowie aus mehreren beweglichen Abdeckelementen (7, 8, 9) bestehen, die sich relativ zueinander und relativ zu dem ersten Abdeckelement (6) entlang des vorgegebenen Weges (D) bewegen; wobei jedes der Abdeckelemente (6, 7, 8, 9) eine Öffnung (6a, 7a, 8a, 9a) aufweist, die auf jedem Element (6, 7, 8, 9) und mit Bezug auf den vorgegebenen Weg (D) durch zwei längs verlaufende Teilbereiche (10) und zwei quer verlaufende Teilbereiche (11, 12) definiert wird, wobei die letztgenannten einen ersten und einen zweiten Teilbereich (13, 14) einer Abdeckwand (15) bilden und die Teilbereiche (13, 14), die komplementär zueinander sind, auf einander gegenüber liegenden Seiten des Werkzugs (3) angeordnet sind, worin in beiden der ersten und zweiten Teilbereiche (13, 14) der Abdeckwand (15) jeder quer verlaufende Teilbereich (11, 12) jedes Abdeckelements (6, 7, 8, 9) einen Abschnitt (12, 19) aufweist, der den nächsten Abschnitt (12, 19) ziegelartig in einer einzigen Richtung (A) entlang des vorgegebenen Weges (D) derart überlappt, dass alle Abschnitte (12, 19) der Abdeckwand (15) in die gleiche Richtung (A) weisen, und worin in dem zweiten Teilbereich (14) der Abdeckwand (15) die entsprechenden zweiten Abschnitte (12) mit den quer verlaufenden Teilbereichen (12) jedes der Abdeckelemente (6, 7, 8, 9) übereinstimmt und auf der selben Ebene liegt wie die längs verlaufenden Abschnitte (10) der entsprechenden Abdeckelemente (6, 7, 8, 9), wobei die Schutzabdeckvorrichtung dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass im ersten Teilbereich (13) der Abdeckwand (15) die entsprechenden ersten Abschnitte (19) aus zweiten quer verlaufenden Teilbereichen (20) bestehen, die parallel zu den entsprechenden quer verlaufenden Teilbereichen (11) sind, mit denen sie über Verbindungswände (21) verbunden sind, die quer zu dem Weg (D) und perpendikular zu den zwei quer verlaufenden Teilbereichen (20, 11) verlaufen, und dass für jeden ersten Abschnitt (19) der entsprechende zweite quer verlaufende Teilbereich (20), der erste quer verlaufende Teilbereich (11) und die Verbindungswand (21) ein U-förmiges kastenartiges Element (22) bilden; wobei die kastenartigen Elemente (22), die den ersten Abschnitten (19) der Abdeckelemente (6, 7, 8, 9) entsprechen, teleskopisch miteinander verbunden sind.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Überlappungsrichtung (A) jedes Abschnitts (12, 19) der zwei Teilbereiche (13, 14) der Abdeckwand (15) von oben nach unten verläuft.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Weg (D) im Wesentlichen vertikal ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie Stoßdämpfermittel (25) beinhaltet, die zwischen den Abdeckelementen (6, 7, 8, 9) angebracht sind.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie Energiedissipationsmittel (25, 26) beinhaltet, die dazu dienen, die Geschwindigkeit zweier benachbarter, aufeinander folgender Elemente (6, 7, 8, 9) zu reduzieren, während sich diese einander annähern, ohne Energierückgabe zwischen den zwei Elementen (6, 7, 8, 9) selbst.
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